I know, I know. I
don’t blog for forever, and now twice in one day. But I have things on my mind. Feel free to keep reading after this entry.
But first, right off, I have a friend whose husband just
lost his job. And her car is
broken. And she’s good people. So if’n you’re reading this, and like the
kind of stuff I write, go check her out:
She’s got a few free books, if you’re a sampling type, and
her cheapest nvoels will cost you all of a dollar.
Do my friend and yourself a favor and check out her stuff.
Onward.
I’ve been puzzling over something, and I’m putting it down
here partially to get it out of my head, and partially to get thoughts from the
people who drop by to visit.
At the moment, I’m currently in editing mode, which makes me
tired. I do reread books from time to
time, but I’ve never been the guy who finishes a book and then immediately
reads it again.
(A lot of this has to do with the STACKS of books in my
to-be-read pile. Not to mention the
two-dozen Kindle books I’ve picked up and haven’t gotten around to. I mean, seriously, one of my favorite authors
wrote an ebook, and I’ve only read half of it:
(I will say I really liked that half…)
(I digress.)
So rereading, this thing I rarely do, is what I’ve been
doing with my Blood Calling series. I’m
reading and editing them, then sending them off to Red Iris, then a week or two
later I have them in my hands again and the only thing preventing them from
coming out is me reading them a SECOND time.
Or actually, more like for the fifth or sixth time.
I’m not complaining (okay, a little bit…) but it has kept me
from finishing some other projects.
And there’s this other thing, which I’m going to talk about
a little bit, but not too much, because it involves people who aren’t me.
Readers paying close attention might have noticed that the
third book in the Blood Calling trilogy is dedicated to my friend Liz. That’s not a random thing. About a year ago, I found out Liz has
cancer.
I cannot stress to you how important Liz is to me and my
family (not to mention her own). More to
the point she loves the Blood Calling books, and she even mentioned them on her
“I’m fighting cancer” blog.
She was the woman who told me they were just as good as The
Hunger Games. And trust me, Liz will
tell you when a book is bad.
Ever since I finished the trilogy, and started working on
other things, she’s subtly and not-so-subtly mentioned that I should continue
the story.
Now, I should say that it’s not like she’s trying to guilt
me into it. If anything, it’s a nice
reminder that she likes my writing and wants to see more of it.
I still need to finish Frank, the Lonely Unicorn, but I’m
hoping to wrap that up after all these edits (I may even take a crack and
trying to push through it during National Novel Writing Month), at which point
I plan to turn my attention back to the world of vampires.
Which brings me to my question.
Right now, one of the “big” things in e-publishing is the
serial. Much like a TV show, but slower,
I guess, a new “episode” of the story comes out every month. And then, after the story is done, the whole
thing is stuck into one large book.
My friend Sara, linked up at the top, is doing this with her
massively popular Seasons of the Moon series.
And John Scalzi, at man with two Hugos, is tapping into his Old Man’s
War universe and doing this as well.
So now I’m puzzling: If I go back to the universe of
vampires, how should I do it? Do I spend
six months trying to write the next chapter in the story? Do I block out the better part of a year and
do another trilogy?
Or do I sneak it out in sections, as is slowly becoming
popular?
I dunno.
I can see certain advantages to both.
I suppose my question is, what do YOU, as a reader, think
you’d prefer? A 60 page chunk of story
at the start of every month? Or a
longer, more-fleshed-out tale every six months?
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